Archives - 24 April 2017, Monday

WASHINGTON — It may not be “far more powerful than the aircraft carrier” — as President Trump said in a recent interview, but a well-armed U.S. submarine has arrived in Korea. The Ohio-class guided-missile submarine Michigan pulled in to the South Korean port of Busan Tuesday for what...

This story was updated on April 25, 2017, at 9:23 a.m. EST. WASHINGTON — Two F-35As, accompanied by about 20 supporting airmen, arrived at Ämari Air Base, Estonia, on Tuesday for familiarization training in the region, according to a U.S. Air Forces in Europe statement. "The deploymen...

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The Taliban claimed credit for a suicide attack outside of a US base in eastern Afghanistan that has hosted CIA operatives who are hunting al Qaeda and other jihadists in the region. A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives at the main gate for Camp Chapman, a base ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — China’s second aircraft carrier, but its first locally built, has been floated off its dry dock, and its formal launch appears imminent, even as the country continues development work on other aspects of its carrier program. The floating of the ship began on the...

Casualties continue to pile up in the wake of the Taliban’s spectacular suicide attack on an Afghan Army corps headquarters in Balkh province on April 21 that killed more than 140 Afghan security personnel. Afghanistan’s defense minister and the Army chief of staff have resigned, and ...

Progess is being made in other markets as well. In 2016 alone, state-controlled missile maker Roketsan qualified four products. In the next seven years, the company plans to move on from missile and rocket systems with a height of 2 meters to those with 7 or 8 meters, said Selcuk Yasa...

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is developing first unmanned combat aircraft, under the ambitious project 'Ghatak'. The Government has allocated Rs 3,000 crore to develop the drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which can deliver bombs and missiles. T...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to SIPRI, the United States still has the highest annual military expenditure in the world ($611 billion), while China increased its military spending by 5.4 percent in 2016 to $215 billion. "Russia increased its spending by 5.9 per cent in 2016 to $69.2 b...

As the global counter-terrorism effort requires a holistic approach, Allies have resolved to strengthen outreach to and cooperation with partner countries and international actors. With partners Increasingly, partners are taking advantage of partnership mechanisms for dialogue and pra...

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China is close to launching its second aircraft carrier, and the first to be built indigenously Beijing is on track to operate at least two aircraft carriers by 2020 The People's Liberation Army Navy's (PLAN's) first indigenously built aircraft carrier is being prepared for launch, a ...

GAROUA, Cameroon (Army News Service) -- As the civil affairs team rolled up to a primary school in a thatched hut on the edge of a dry and barren field, rows of children in bright purple school uniforms stood outside and bellowed a song to welcome the team's first visit to the struggl...

The British Korean Veterans Association (Ireland) flag has been “marched off” for the last time in front of the final muster of veterans who fought in the conflict more than sixty years ago. At an emotional service in Belfast marking the 67th anniversary of the Korean War remaining ve...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The United States must confront Russia for providing weapons to the Taliban for use against American-backed forces in Afghanistan, top U.S. military officials said Monday. At a news conference with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at his side, Gen. John Nicholson, the...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's army chief and defense minister resigned on Monday, following a Taliban attack over the weekend that struck a northern army base, killing more than 100 military and other personnel, officials said. The attack — the biggest ever by the Taliban on a mi...

In a new audio message, Ayman al Zawahiri warns jihadists that they should avoid a strictly "nationalist" agenda in Syria. He also says the jihadists should focus on waging a "guerrilla" war inside Syria and not place too much emphasis on controlling territory at this time. Zawahiri's...

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